Here Comes the Sun-lit Bouquet
In HERE COMES THE SUN-LIT BOUQUET, TOUKTA WONGSE-ONT gains inspiration from fresh flowers, author SARAH ORNE JEWETT, poet…
Spring in Verse
Spring cannot arrive too soon, and we anticipate its arrival in verse from SHAKESPEARE, EMILY DICKINSON, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH…
The Floating World
Can the Japanese today really look to Mother Nature to find out who they are? A visit…
Galen Clark
The Yosemite Valley's first Guardian, GALEN CLARK taught others about the mysteries of the giant sequoias and worked…
Natural Comfort
When she got lost in ALLEGANY STATE PARK as a child, KIMBERLY DANIELS found unexpected comfort in the…
A Walk Along Iceland’s Volcanic Rift
WALKING THE VOLCANIC RIFT: Iceland is literally tearing apart at a rate of one inch per year, separating…
Surf in Verse
SURF IN VERSE: Our annual feature marking summer's arrival. This month we spotlight, exclusively, the poetry of BRYAN…
The Music of Nature
Writing in 1878, author JAMES M. TROTTER, in his essay 'The Music of Nature,' observed what 'the great…
Spring in Verse, In Romania and In Song
Nature’s Temple: we celebrate Spring with RUBY & THE ROMANTICS, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings and others..
Ladders to Heaven: A Legend
Famous as a children's book author in the mid-1800s, JULIANA HORATIA EWING was also devoted to 'the practical…